STATE OF NEW YORK
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2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 11, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, KIM, SIMON -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to rescinding the anni-
versary day school holiday for the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens;
and to repeal section 2586 of the education law relating thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2586 of the education law is REPEALED.
2 § 2. Subdivision 2-a of section 3635 of the education law, as amended
3 by chapter 424 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
4 2-a. The superintendent of each city school district, in a city having
5 a population in excess of one million, shall prepare a public school
6 calendar and shall notify officials of nonpublic schools to which trans-
7 portation has been requested not later than the first day of June in
8 each year, of the days on which the public schools will be in session in
9 the following school year. Such school district which provides transpor-
10 tation to nonpublic schools shall provide such transportation for the
11 same number of days as the public schools are open but shall not provide
12 transportation services for more than one hundred eighty days. Offi-
13 cials of each nonpublic school to which transportation is provided by a
14 city school district of a city having a population in excess of one
15 million may notify such district, not later than the first day of July
16 of each school year, of a maximum of five days, exclusive of Saturdays,
17 Sundays or legal holidays upon which public schools are required to be
18 closed, on which the public schools are scheduled to be closed, except
19 that in any year in which the first or last day of Passover and Easter
20 Sunday are separated by more than seven days, such officials may notify
21 the district of a maximum of ten days, but such school district will be
22 required to provide for transportation to such nonpublic school provided
23 that such five or ten additional days, whichever is applicable, are
24 limited to the following: the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 after Labor Day, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, the week in which public
2 schools are closed for spring recess, December twenty-fourth and the
3 week between Christmas day and New Year's day, and the Tuesday, Wednes-
4 day, Thursday and Friday after the observance of Washington's birthday[,
5 and, in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens only, Anniversary Day as
6 designated in section twenty-five hundred eighty-six of this chapter].
7 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
8 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
